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And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music. -- Merle Haggard
Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters. -- Jeb Bush
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States. -- Carlos Fuentes
A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that. -- Ellen Ochoa
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. -- Moby
The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why we can't we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them? -- Eriq La Salle
Everyone has a Latino inside them. -- Paulina Rubio
America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. -- Geraldo Rivera
I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. -- Gabriel Iglesias
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino. -- Lisa Bonet
My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement. -- Lindi Ortega
I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first. -- Daddy Yankee
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable? -- Walter Dean Myers
Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. -- Sandra Cisneros
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. -- Sandra Cisneros
I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people. -- Stephanie Beatriz
I've made a connection with the television audience by being a proud Latino man. I am passionate for what I do, courageous in the face of peril, honest and straightforward. -- Geraldo Rivera
A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. -- Antonio Banderas
For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts. -- Hannibal Buress
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world. -- Raul Ruiz
Many Latino kids should become scientists because we need scientists all over the world from all different backgrounds. We have many tough problems, and we need everybody's help to solve the problems. -- Mario J. Molina
The best way to help the Latino community is to give back. I love giving back; I'm quiet about God and what I do, but we do a lot in the Dominican Republic. -- Daddy Yankee
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. -- Barack Obama
I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage. -- Nina Garcia
We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.' -- Charlie Gonzalez
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the Latino culture, because the women are expected to be the ones that serve and cook and whatever. Not in our family. Everybody was equal. -- Dolores Huerta
I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.' -- Ice Cube
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it. -- Gloria Reuben
You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are involved in every part of American society. That's why they have to start being represented in Hollywood, because an 'Americano' can't walk down the street and not see a Latino. -- Thalia
It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says. -- Jan Brewer
I am proud to be Latino. -- Justina Machado
I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper. -- Big Pun
As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes. -- Xavier Becerra
For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title. -- Gabriel Iglesias
I've been in a couple with different races like Latino, white, Middle Eastern. -- Sanaa Lathan
The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet. -- Mark Sanchez
Mr. Latino with the big ego got bested by a ditzy, blond bimbo. -- Simone Elkeles
Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. -- Hillary Clinton
New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino. -- Junot Diaz
I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I dont look Latino enough. -- Tristan Wilds
I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I don't look Latino enough. -- Tristan Wilds
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed. -- Erik Estrada
The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting. -- Jai Rodriguez
We have more people in jail than any other country in Earth, disproportionately Latino and African-American. -- Bernie Sanders
I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker. -- Donald Trump
Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of America? -- Raquel Cepeda
...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. -- Raquel Cepeda
I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset. -- Andrew Breitbart
I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive. -- Ricky Martin
Being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about. -- Raquel Cepeda
I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board. -- Gabriel Iglesias
I never had the opportunity to play a Latino character that is seen in a heroic, smart way. -- Ray Santiago
Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade. -- Cynthia Tucker
Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos. -- Stephen Colbert
When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino! -- Meagan Good
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. -- Jasper Fforde
I don't want to be pitted as a person who is anti-Latino or anti-Hispanic because I believe in the laws. -- Andrew Breitbart
Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too. -- George Lopez
Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me. -- Felipe Esparza
In America we need members of the Latino community to come to the Tea Party movement and enrich the Tea Party. -- Andrew Breitbart
The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California. -- Jimmy Fallon
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters. -- Judy Woodruff
And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor. -- Tom Hayden
Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success. -- Joe Baca
I'm a mongrel in the sense that I'm Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south - all these things are mixed in me. -- Ariel Dorfman
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Some people wanted me to be the Latino quarterback. Some people wanted me to be the USC quarterback who happens to be Latino. -- Mark Sanchez
I broke into acting doing Latino roles. I played a Latino casanova in 'The Winner' and a Latino character on 'Hannah Montana.' -- Michael Steger
Prisons are like the concentration camps of our time. So many go in and never come out, and primarily they're black and Latino." -- Lisa Bonet
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program. -- Joe Baca
No matter where you're from - you can be Native American, Italian, Jewish, Latino, African-American - whatever you are, we're all distant relatives. -- Nas
They just think I'm a white dude. Every once in a while someone thinks I'm Jewish. I get a lot of stuff, but never Latino. -- James Roday
I want to be known as a funny comic not just a funny Latino comic. I want to be able to go everywhere and anywhere. -- Gabriel Iglesias
I was aware that my nomination was drawing a lot of attention, particularly in the Latino world, not just in Puerto Rico. It was touching. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl. -- America Ferrera
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.' -- Cristela Alonzo
Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. -- Mike Pence
I'm passionate about mobilizing young Latinos to get to the polls, so I'm involved with Voto Latino. Latinos are a vital but underrepresented force in this country. -- Ana Ortiz
The only people that deserve to be called Americans are Native Americans, otherwise, I'm a Latino American, you know.... Anybody else... well where did you come from? -- Cristian Machado
The next Republican that will win will campaign in the Latino community, will campaign amongst Asian-Americans, will campaign in the black churches, will campaign in college campuses. -- Jeb Bush
I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with. -- Charles Rangel
I do great with Latino voters. I employee so many Latinos, I have so many people working for me, the Latinos love Trump, and I Iove them. -- Donald Trump
I remember when they started publishing Latino fiction years ago. You had to be really good to get published. Now you don't have to be that good. -- Sandra Cisneros
Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
I don't want the Latino community to think I think the reason Latino films are not doing well is because of us. It is not fully our responsibility. -- Gina Rodriguez
A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority. -- Juan Vargas
I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.' -- Oscar Isaac
Same way I have my entire life. Keep my family and friends close. My Latino friends close. I visit the island [Puerto Rico] as often as I humanly can. -- Sonia Sotomayor
My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor. -- Bruce Bruce
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero? -- Esai Morales
In my mind, there's no question that Donald Trump has energized the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate. Unfortunately for him, he's done that in a negative way. -- Julian Castro
Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise. -- Barack Obama
They're keeping friction going between people from the East and the West. One thing we all got in common is your color, which is Black and Latino, which is our family. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto -Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination]. -- Sonia Sotomayor
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world. -- Sandra Cisneros
Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype? Characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies. -- Edgar Ramirez
You have to look at the fact that Hip Hop is under attack. It's not just Hip Hop but Black people, Latino people and all people are under attack for different things. -- Afrika Bambaataa
Where I grew up, it was all people who were black and Latino, people who look like me. Now I live in a neighborhood where very, very few people look like me. -- Jacqueline Woodson
I wanted to get away from the Mexican vernacular and do more 'nuevo Latino.' Americans are starting to understand regionality in Mexican food. It is very regional in terms of ingredients. -- Aaron Sanchez
The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan. -- Edward Abbey
Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the clichÃ© of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices. -- Pedro Almodovar
What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures. -- Sandra Cisneros
I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved. -- Hilda Solis
It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language. -- Romeo Santos
75%-90% of the murders that occur in black and Latino communities are solvable. Everybody knows who did it or somebody knows. The reason nobody talks is because snitches get stitches and people aren't bulletproof. -- Cheo Hodari Coker
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is -- Edward James Olmos
There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is. -- Edward James Olmos
Many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and are only one step away from being homeless. Whether you are white, black, Latino, or Asian, we have to be there to help pick each other up. -- Raheem Devaughn
I do believe that in America there needs to be a primary language and that English should be that language, it's not a radical position, it's a position that's held by countless people who are Latino. -- Andrew Breitbart
When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language. -- Thalia
I'm delighted to carry on in the tradition of the great reporters like Edward R. Murrow, Ernie Pyle, and Geraldo Rivera to probe vitally important issues of the day, starting with whether I'm Hispanic or Latino. -- Al Madrigal
Do I have to see movies and television about the English throne or the Holocaust every year? There are multiple multi-million dollar movies with the same backdrop. But our Holocaust - meaning Latino - aren't ever told. -- Esai Morales
One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
We obviously talk about immigration, but that's not the number one priority for - at least that I've seen with the Latino demographic. And we have not seen that as polling as the number one issue either. -- Lucy Flores
W a gang member, and especially in a Latino gang, gets jumped in, and then he's given a name, and he has that name forever, but it's not so much the name as being called by name. -- Greg Boyle
People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school. -- Barack Obama
It's going to be difficult for [Donald] Trump to overcome the deep first impression that he gave to the Latino community with his comments right out of the gate about Mexican immigrants, with his comments about Judge Curiel. -- Julian Castro

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